Re: An Acrobat OSX/OS9 problem?
Re: An Acrobat OSX/OS9 problem?
- Subject: Re: An Acrobat OSX/OS9 problem?
- From: "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:03:42 +1000
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:32:29 -0700, David Crowe wrote:
>I had a script like the following working in OSX with Acrobat 6
>Professional. Acrobat 5.0 under OS9 claims to support similar
>functionality, but I keep getting a message like <Document X does not
>understand the Insert Pages message>
>
>
>The code, stripped down to its essentials is something like this:
>
>
>tell application "Acrobat 5.0"
> set dRef1 to document "Temp1.pdf"
> set dRef2 to document "Temp2.pdf"
>
> insert pages dRef1 from dRef2
>end
>
>
>I've changed "document" to "a reference to document" in the two set
>commands (as I've noticed that counting pages doesn't work without
>this) but it doesn't do any good. I've tried "PDF Window", "file"
>(with the full path name) and just plain "window" ... and nothing
>seems to accept the "Insert Pages" command.
That method works for v5 here. What doesn't work, though, and might be
confusing you, is "saving as" -- the saving always gets done to the
original document instead. So to merge two docs you normally need to
duplicate one, open it and the other, merge, then do a normal save.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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